Advent Calendar

Well our advent calendar is up! Now don't panic, we are not that Christmas mad! It is a calendar counting down to our Scottish Holiday for Christmas week, as seen here.

When my sister and I were little we used to make count down calendars to all sorts of things, just to help us count the days down and somehow make them seem to go quicker.

Well it was something Mr Dancin' and I took up a few years ago to count down to our summer holiday.

We had a cover image like this, a map of the area we were going to, and then doors opening up each day onto pictures of things relevant to our holiday.

The first attempt went a little wrong and each image behind the door was slightly out of shot but it made us giggle trying to guess/ remember what they were!

Well today I decided to do another calendar counting down the 64 days until we head to Scotland! Again I have used a map of the area we are off to and each image behind the doors is something significant for us.

We were discussing the calendar this evening and whether we could actually call it an advent calendar; as it was really a count down calendar to our holiday and not Christmas Day, perhaps we should be calling it an event calendar?

But on checking in my dictionary I have found out that advent means the following: the period before Christmas including the 4 Sundays before Christmas, the coming or second coming of Christ and the coming of an especially important person or event. So, advent calendar it is! And only 63 days to go now! (And 1 hour.)